| Sharon Van Etten – Pay My Debts Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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In this interview she explains the meaning and story behind every song on this EP: http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/06/01/407058268/sharon-van-etten-explains-the-heartbreak-behind-her-new-ep-track-by-track |
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| Sharon Van Etten – I Don't Want to Let You Down Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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In this interview she explains the meaning and story behind every song on this EP: http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/06/01/407058268/sharon-van-etten-explains-the-heartbreak-behind-her-new-ep-track-by-track |
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| Sharon Van Etten – I Always Fall Apart Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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In this interview she explains the meaning and story behind every song on this EP: http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/06/01/407058268/sharon-van-etten-explains-the-heartbreak-behind-her-new-ep-track-by-track |
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| Torres – Strange Hellos Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Mackenzie said: Well, the person that I wrote that song about represents the full spectrum of human emotion, and how we’re capable of loving and hating someone at the same time. While writing that song, I was reading Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing, and he writes about getting your true loves and your true hates onto the paper. Up until that point, I felt a lot of hate, and I wanted to channel that into my songwriting, but I felt like maybe I shouldn’t go that far as to say that I hated something or someone. But that book made me feel pretty fearless in a way that I hadn’t felt before, at least in my songwriting.” http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9639-im-drowning-but-im-ok-the-revelations-of-torres-mackenzie-scott/ |
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| Torres – Son, You Are No Island Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Mackenzie said: That’s my attempt at being omnipotent but still wounded—my attempt at being the voice of God. I was betrayed by someone I cared deeply about and it provoked me in a strange way. My instinct was to be punishing rather than wounding, so that I was in the position of power. So I wanted to make the voice of God sound as androgynous and as punishing as possible—but somehow, strangely comforting. http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9639-im-drowning-but-im-ok-the-revelations-of-torres-mackenzie-scott/ |
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| Torres – The Exchange Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Mackenzie has said: “‘The Exchange’ is the story of my adoptive mother […] my mom was leading a Bible study, and my birth mother attended and hand-selected her to be my adoptive mother; she actually approached her and told her that she wanted her to be the mother of her child — me. “The Exchange” is really everything that I’ve tried to articulate to the people that I love but have never been able to, for whatever reason. My crippling fear of mortality; my intense, intense love of life; my fear of losing my parents and seeing people that I love get old. That was my own way of saying that I’m drowning but I’m OK. But I’m drowning. [laughs]” http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9639-im-drowning-but-im-ok-the-revelations-of-torres-mackenzie-scott/ |
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| Torres – Sprinter Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Mackenzie said: “‘Sprinter’ is definitely about my love and appreciation for my upbringing, but also my desire to run away. I was raised in the Baptist Church in Georgia. My parents are very sweet, churchgoing people. They’re content in that; I wasn’t.” http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9639-im-drowning-but-im-ok-the-revelations-of-torres-mackenzie-scott/ |
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| Torres – Moon & Back Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Mackenzie explaining the meaning and story behind the song: “‘Moon & Back’ was written from the perspective of my birth mother. I met her once; I believe I was 8. When I graduated from high school, my mom gave me a journal that my biological mother had written while she was pregnant with me. It was a tiny little spiral notebook. I read that and went to college and wrote “Moon & Back”. It was basically my perspective of her perspective when she wrote that journal.” http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9639-im-drowning-but-im-ok-the-revelations-of-torres-mackenzie-scott/ |
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| Speedy Ortiz – Fun Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Sadie said this in an interview: “I try to write from a gender-neutral voice. In rap music, it’s a symbol of success— you got all these girls on your dick. So that was my flippant way of saying that I’m having some success in my life.[…]” http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/9165-speedy-ortiz/ |
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| Bowerbirds – Crooked Lust Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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| Rocky Votolato – Silver Trees Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is about growing up and making an impression on the world or people around you . The first half is about growing up and becoming "someone". He puts in the song like becoming "something that death can't steal" and leaving "a legacy". It also talks about learning what learning what life means. The second part talks about the "weight" of growing up, making decisions that are so important that "death can't steal" them. I think the "choir" that he sings about is all the people arround you in the process of growing up, they are teaching you lessons, lessons that will stick with you so "you'll always hear the choir if you listen close". |
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| The National – Val Jester Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I'm with Neefala and Alejo. I think it is about a daughter moving out of her parents' house and starting a life of her own in New York. I think it's told from the perspective of Val Jester (father)... like someone is telling the story of Val Jester from his point of view. | |
| The National – 90-Mile Water Wall Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is about a man who likes a woman he can't be with...or that he shouldn't be with. "You've become the target of this hand with never even asking", I think it means that she didn't do anything to make him like her, but she has become his "target". And when it says "So how could your hair have the nerve to dance around like that, blowing" I think it means that he likes that her hair does that, but that it shouldn't because it "tempting" him and he can't be with her... so he's waiting for a "90-mile water wall" and a "trap door trigger" to take him out of her view, so that he doesn't have to look at her hair blowing temptingly at him. And it says "90-mile water wall" because it's something impossible, something that it's not going to happen and he know that it's not going to happen so he's not going to stop looking at her and her hair. An I think the rest of the song is about him telling her how he feels, and the conversation that goes with that, like in the "Yes I'm listening I'm listening, I can tell that you are serious", they are argueing about it. Sorry if that was a bit long, but this is my favorite song of that album and this is what I think the lyrics mean :P. |
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